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2012 Nov 21
1
remote connection to an Oracle database - using RODBC - RMySQL..?
...uses the KERBEROS_AUTHENTICATION. I'm trying to connect R - so that it can access this database - do sql queries and convert the resulting tables into dataframes. I am a novice in SQL and database access - but a friend provided me with the following approach: library(DBI) library(RMySQL) drvr<-dbDriver("MySQL") #Or another driver, say from the RODBC package? acon<-dbConnect(drvr, user="ENTER_USERID", dbname="ENTER_NAME", host="ENTER_HOST", port=1521,password=NULL) #password maybe non-null? cmds<-dbSendQuery(acon,statement=...
2012 Jun 15
2
Looking for Speed in a Toy Simulation Example
Dear List Members I used to play around with R to answer the following question by simulation (I am aware there is an easy explicit solution, but this is intended to serve as instructional example). Suppose you have a poker game with 6 players and a deck of 52 cards. Compute the empirical frequencies of having a single-suit hand. The way I want the result structured is a boolean nosimulation